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Waupaca Republican

April 26, 1907

STEPHEN L. DOX

His Head Was Blown Off While Cleaning a Shot Gun

Last week report said that Stephen Dox a young man who formerly lived here had died at his home in Oshkosh having recently returned with his wife and baby from Colorado. We have not seen or learned all the particulars except that it is said the mother recently sold her property in Oshkosh and invested in a farm for her son near Kaukaunanna or Suamico.

A dispatch to the evening Wisconsin Friday mentions the fact of a fatal accident that befell young Dox. He was at the farm house cleaning a shot gun, the hammer or hammers of the gun caught against a step in such a way as to discharge the gun, the exploded charge blowing the top of the young man’s head completely off. As no further particulars have been learned we are lead to believe the burial must have taken place in Oshkosh instead of here as was expected.